I agree, this is way too difficult. King is recruiting like crazy, I can hardly get one third of his land army, not to speak about naval forces. Another thing, his forces are superior to mine. Man-o-wars kill everything like flies, I need two frigates or ship in lines two sink one of these monsters and I have barely 20% of his naval army. WTF?
Next thing is his artilleries against my cannons, why can't I build artillery? And just to add, everytime he attacks my city full of defenders, he does so with his best unit against my worse - artillery vs. soldier, even I have 10 fortified dragoons inside. If I attack with those dragoons, I have to clear my way to his artilleries through bunch of regulars and his dragoons.
This game really needs patch.